Why We React Before We Can Think

By Gurudev Shri Amritji Every reaction arises out of the discrepancy between reality and your ideas about how it should be or how you expect it to be. This process unfolds so quickly that most people experience only the reaction itself, without recognizing that every...

The World Changes Less Than the Reactive Perceiver

What Brainwaves Reveal About Meditation, Perception, and Consciousness By Gurudev Shri Amritji Every moment of your life is filtered through the state of your own consciousness. Most people believe they experience life first and then react to it. Yoga suggests...

Re-Train Your Brain

By Gurudev Shri Amritji To re-train your brain, it helps to understand the human limbic system, a network of interconnected brain structures involved in emotional processing, memory, motivation, and instinctive survival responses. It assigns emotional meaning to...
Have You Been Practicing Yoga Backwards?

Have You Been Practicing Yoga Backwards?

The refinement of technique is not the same as awakening awareness. By Gurudev Shri Amritji Your body is the visible soul. The false self that has continuously abused the body has not only violated it and lived in conflict with it, but has also lived in separation...

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Habits Are Habitat for the False Self

Written by Gurudev Shri AmritjiWe often think of habits as small behaviors that either help us or hold us back. Yet in yoga, habit is understood on a much deeper level. A habit is not only about what you do, it is about how your energy is being used, repeated, and...

Mental Calories: How Unseen Thoughts Weigh You Down

Written by Gurudev Shri AmritjiToday, we are careful about what we feed our physical bodies. We read labels, count calories, take supplements. But we do not apply the same care to what we mentally and emotionally feed ourselves. The thoughts we think, the judgments we...

The Path of Awakening Requires Remembering

Written by Gurudev Shri Amritji Guru Purnima is a sacred day in the yogic tradition, observed on the full moon of the lunar month of Ashadha (June–July). It has been celebrated for thousands of years as a time to honor the guru—the spiritual teacher and inner guide...

Not Just Air: The Power of Breath

Written by Gurudev Shri Amritji Breath as Bridge Between Conscious and SubconsciousYour breath is not merely a physical function. It is the living bridge between your mind, the conscious, thinking self, and your subconscious inner body, which operates automatically...

Accessing the Source of Oneness

Written by Gurudev Shri Amritji When you are identified with your self-image, it acts as a screen of self-concepts and pre-learned perceptions. It arises from the reactively distorted impressions stored in your memories of the past. When you perceive through this...